I sat in class on the third floor of the new Annenberg building, feeling both inspired and intimidated. It was during one of the first lectures of my Business and Economic Foundations of Public Relations course, a second-semester requirement of my graduate program. My brilliant professor, Burghardt Tenderich, had just finished lecturing on a practice that I, at the time, previously hadn’t...

Two facts: I made a Youtube channel in 5th grade and my least favorite subject in school is math. This past fall, I found myself working as an Audience Development Intern for AwesomenessTV, a numbers heavy position at a Youtube-centric company.

What does an Audience Development Intern do? I wasn’t exactly sure either, but scrolling through AwesomenessTV’s Youtube channel, I recognized...

Full Name: Rachel Parsons What is your hometown? Fort Worth, Texas What is your major? Journalism What is your expected graduation date? December 2019 Why did you choose to attend Annenberg? I chose Annenberg for future professional contacts and the network of alumni. I knew the Trojan network would be valuable, and the Annenberg name and training would carry weight with newsrooms and outlets...